After enjoying a family get together, we dropped him off at his house in Brington Place in Dundee.

My father made sure he got into his house before leaving him on his own.

My dad was called by the police about half an hour later.

They told him someone had broken into my grandpa’s house through the living room window and stolen his pride and joy, his new plasma TV, which he had only got a few weeks before.

My grandpa struggles to hear and this TV allowed him to watch programmes with subtitles and allowed him to access many channels. Now he is stuck with an old TV that only has one working channel.

My late gran had a collection of Royal Doulton figurines, which were also taken.

His window was not secured that evening for police forensic reasons. My grandpa, who would not leave his home, did not sleep a wink.

Whoever is responsible is the lowest of the low and I hope he or she gets caught.

I cannot imagine how anyone would break into someone’s house on Christmas Day, never mind an elderly man and take the only thing that keeps him occupied. — Jane Steele.

He managed to get some from our local council depot.

We decided to go to get some more as we had almost salted our whole cul-de-sac and everyone’s path.

When we went back to the depot, a guy approached us from Angus Council and asked what we were doing.

After a brief discussion, he was about to lock us in and phone the police for ‘stealing some salt’ after we had initially being given permission to take some.

During this discussion he told us that only the priority routes were being gritted. He also told us that he had had to call the police to the Arbroath depot because people had resorted to climbing the fence to get salt.

The pavements and untreated roads are lethal and my fit and able 69-year-old father had a bad fall when he slipped just outside his house.

This has to be sorted out as a matter of urgency.

It seems to me that we and people like us are basically doing the local authority’s job for it.

I don’t understand why the council would object to people trying to help out in this way. — Sheriff, Carnoustie.

[In yesterday’s Tele, Dundee City Council urged residents to use council salt and grit on their pavements and roads.]

Reading Dryburgh Resident’s letter, it was the first time I have ever heard of a residents association, or community council for Dryburgh, as it’s hard enough already just getting the council to maintain the over 50-year-old stock they already have.

I have previously reported a dangerous bowing garden wall (built by a previous tenant), and an interior door which was badly damaged by workmen installing new kitchen units last year, but there’s been no action.

My family and I have lived in Dryburgh long enough to remember the Ettrick Crescent/Munro Place site when it was a frequently used playpark, which was ripped out, the excuse given at the time was it was because of new Health & Safety legislation which outlawed the apparatus.

There was no consultation with residents on what use the site should be put to should a new play park not replace the old one, and the area has lain vacant since then.

In my opinion, the concerns of the residents who are objecting to the plans are valid ones, in particular the traffic concerns, as parking and traffic issues are big problems in this area, with some residents resorting to anti-social measures when parking their vehicles.

We all know these plans will go ahead regardless of what the residents of Dryburgh think, but if Dundee City Council is at all interested in our views, perhaps it should look to build on the acres of undeveloped land adjacent to the old Dryburgh Primary School? — Dryburgh Citizen.

I went to Jobcentre Plus in Dundee to see about benefits and was given a number to call, which was a free phone number.

When I asked to use a phone, I was told I could not use one of the Jobcentre Plus phones because it was free and I was told the nearest public phone was beside a nearby pub.

I took a trip to Citizen’s Advice Bureau and I happened to mention, while talking about other things, my experience with Jobcentre Plus only to find out the job centre is subsidised for their phones

So why do they get away with it? We’re all having a hard time. Why do they have to degrade us even more? — Reader.

My young daughter was most upset to see a beggar sitting in the Murraygate with a dog. The poor dog looked totally miserable, although he was tucked into a duvet.

I hope the SSPCA are paying attention to this kind of thing. — Concerned Animal Lover.

The question is will the Rage Against The Machine phenomena become an annual thing?

Simon Cowell will have to put his thinking cap on if he wants to avoid his act being pipped to the post every year from now on. — Chart Watcher.

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